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A boldly conceived dystopian epic, Target
is set in Russia in 2020 - a nation now massively influenced by
China, but still divided between the poor and the outrageously
wealthy. Viktor (Sukhanov) and Zoya (Waddell) are members of the
gilded elite, and seekers after eternal youth - available at a
price at an abandoned astrophysics facility bombarded with cosmic
rays. Vast in conception, Target is at once an audacious exercise
in futurology, a philosophical contemplation of the human
condition, and a satirical vision of the oligarchs' Russia
of today. All this is wrapped up in stylishly conceived and often
spectacular imagery, with some bold motorway action thrown into the
mix. Co-written by cult novelist Vladimir Sorokin (The Ice
Trilogy), Target belongs in the great Russian philosophical
science-fiction tradition of writers like Zamyatin and the
Strugatsky brothers - not to mention of Tarkovsky. But its
confidence and elegant production values also carry echoes of
Minority Report, The Matrix and even Fellini. Right up to its
apocalyptic finale, Target has to be seen to be believed -
visionary cinema at its most playful and
provocative.